9/12/25

 This month, I added 2216 tent/1108 full x stitches as I work to catch myself up to meet my goal for SS Daybreak.  It's now 2.87% complete.

Loneliness of Autumn is out next.

9/9/25

 I've met my September goal for Sea Witch.  I could have kept it out and finished of the page, but I was done and it was time to rotate.  I added 1080 tent/540 full x stitches and this is now 39.10% complete.

SS Daybreak is out now for it's 1000 tent stitches this month.

9/7/25

 I've met my  September goal for Warrior Alice with 1146 tent/ 573 full x stitches for 64.15% complete.

Sea Witch is next.  Ishould be getting very close to a page finish.

9/6/25

 Ive met my September goal for Her Private Garden with 1060 tent/530 full x stitches and 5.95% complete.

I had hoped to complete page three this month but there are way more stitches left in page two than I thought.  I did however find the edge of a wing and the edge of the page so I have a better idea how far I need to go for page three.

Warrior Alice is next.  I'll probably spend my 1000 storches on her right striped stocking.

9/5/25

 I've made a little bit of progress on Loara Standish, not nearly as much as I would like but every little bit counts.  That first partial flower on the left took two days for the stitch path to click since this is being stitched reversibly.  Then the second full flower took just a couple hours last night.

I do plan to pick this back up later this month to keep working on this band.

Her Private Garden is next.

9/2/25

 I've added another 2340 stitches to Heritage Sampler.

I would really like to pull this out again this month and maybe finish that central garden.

Next is Loara Standish.   I would like to get the flowers in band 8 completed.

8/30/25

 While stitching with friends last night, I met my goal for Pour Ta Fete from Lindsay Lane Designs with 525 stitches.

Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler came out next and we talked about the personalization im planning and what stitch I should use for the berries in the bottom right corner.  Here's the result.

The color called for to backstitch the berries didn't look good so I pulled three possibilities.  I planning on the one on the right.

8/29/25

 I've met my goal for Alice Bierton by Samplers Remembered with 522 stitches.

The 56 ct linen is a challenge but I enjoyed those stitches.

Pour Ta Fete from Lindsay Lane Designs is out next.

8/27/25

 I've met my goal for Sarah Elizabeth Brooke with 579 stitches.

I almost kept going with the border of this one but there are other WIPs to visit.  Maybe I'll make it back to visit this one again this year.

Alice Bierton from Samplers Remembered is out next.

8/25/25

 I've met my goal for Ann Roberts with 544 stitches.

She's a much smaller sampler than I thought she was, or, she appears that way since she's on 46 count linen.

Sarah Elizabeth Brook from The Scarlett House is up next.

8/24/25

 I added more stitches to Steampunk Portal yesterday, then had to switch to another project.  Here's where it currently sits with 408 tent/204 full x stitches than it had last time it was out.

It looks awesome in the photo.  I just wish I was more inclined to stitch on it.

The Castle from Teresa Wentzler came out next and I've met my goal for it with 522 stitches.  

It was kind of iffy there for a while too.  But I think adding some of the greens instead of more wall colors helped move things along.  I'd like to revisit this one again this year to move it along.  It's been over 20 years since Mother Nature decided I didn't need the first one I stitched.  I'd like to get this one complete.

Ann Roberts from HATS is out next.  I think I've decided to add some border which is just two colors.

8/23/25

 I didn't reach my August goal for Sea Witch last night as I'd hoped but I did meet it this morning.

Here she is with an additional 1204 tent stitches/602 full x stitches and 38.73% complete.

I'm hoping to have page 15 finished in September but it may be October.  Page 16 may yet be this year as well since a good bit of the black that I'm stitching on page 15 is on page 16 up to the dragon's jaw so it's being stitched at the same time.

I've pulled out Steampunk Portal, HAED's 2025 SAL to make some progress andI'm not really feeling all the confetti.  I'm going to pull another color or two and see if that changes, but that may be coming off the qsnaps in favor of another WIP.

8/22/25

 I completed August's goal for Her Private Garden last night with 1346 tent/673 full x stitches and 5.66% complete.

Sea Witch is out now and may see her August goal met tonight.

8/20/25

 I've met my August goal for Warrior Alice with page 26 and 2296 tent/1148 full x stitches.

Her Private Garden is out next.

8/16/25

 I've met my goal for this month on SS Daybreak and am slowly catching back up for this year.  

I've added 2068 tent/1034 full cross stitches bringing me up to 2.58% complete.

There's still some tree in page 3 but I'm hoping it stitches up much faster since most of the page is sky.

Warrior Alice is out next.  The White Rabbit's head will be finished this month!

8/15/25

 Last night, I finished page 2 of SS Daybreak.  It's  now 2.48% complete.

It's been a long time coming.  I went back through this blog and checked.  I finished page 1 on 12/20/2015.  So not quite 10 years for page 2.  I'm hoping to pick up the pace just a bit.

SS Daybreak is staying out just a little longer.  I've finished the goal for one month, but I'm still behind so I'm hoping to finish the goal for a second month tonight or tomorrow.

8/12/25

 August's goal is met for The Loneliness of Autumn with 5698 tent/2849 full x stitches and 82.71% complete.

I'm so close to the lower left corner but still not quite there.  The stitches that were left to meet my monthly goal went super quick with lots of block stitching which are uncommon in this WIP.

SS Daybreak is up next.  I would love to see a page finish this month.

8/11/25

Sunday, I finished pages 24 and 25 of Loneliness of Autumn which made it 81.28% complete.

By the end of the night, I'd added a bunch more stitches and got to 81.67%

Does anyone else ever decide they don't want to watch anything new to them?  So you pull up a movie you've watched a bunch of times so you can just listen while you stitch?

 

8/4/25

 On August 1, I pulled out Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler and added 2043 stitches.  

I would have added more, but I got hung up on what stitch the grapes in the lower right are supposed to be.  Martina didn't spell that out.  The pattern looks like it could be an eyelet which may be what I add.  Other stitchers, from the pictures on the Chatelaine Gallery and from the Chatelaine Support Group on Facebook stitched the same jessica stitches that were used in the upper left.  Once I figure it out, I may come back to this project this month.  Or it may just marinate until September.

Loneliness of Autumn is out next.

7/31/25

 Goal for Airships and Floating Castle met with 1076 tent/ 538 full x stitches and 4.28% complete.

7/29/25

 Goal met for Ann Tong Uffindell from Hands Across the Sea with 776 stitches and the main part of the border is done.  It was off a stitch somewhere, but I won't tell if you won't. 

Margret Croft from Needlework Press is next.

7/28/25

 I'm still behind on my goal for SS Daybreak but I've added another 1006 tent/503 full x stitches

I was hopeful I would be able to finish page two but it wasn't going to happen.  Maybe the next time I pull it out.

Ann Tong Uffindell is out next for at least 500 stitches

7/26/25

I've been working on more WIPs to meet my goal of at least 500 stitches for the bulk of them again this year.

Yesterday, I met that goal for Come Into My Garden by Blackbird Designs with 610 stitches

And today, I've met my goal for Sarah Redfearn with 578 stitches.

Now, I'm going to back track a little and go back to Day Break which is supposed to be a WIP that gets 500 stitches every month.

7/25/25

 I've met my 2025 goal for Cider Dragon with 1138 tent/569 full x stitches bringing it to 11.24% complete.

I enjoyed adding that pop of green yesterday.

Come Into My Garden by Blackbird Designs is out next.

7/23/25

 I've met my goal for Anna Sophia Bircham from Hands Across the Sea with 638 stitches.

I know it's not obvious what was added, but the border, excluding the flowers, is now done and I added a bit to the partial flower in the main field of the sampler to finish off some silk on my needle.

Cider Dragon from Paine Free Crafts is out next.

7/21/25

I made a lot of progress on Heritage Sampler this weekend.  There was some frogging of the outer border since there were changes to the pattern and since I can't count but I got those corrected and the border is complete, except for beads.  I also added most of the interior borders so I can pick a section to work on.

 

7/18/25

 I've met my July goal for Her Private Garden and even though I haven't stitched any sky, I know where it starts.  Yay for colors that aren't brown!

I added 1074 tent/537 full x stitches which brought the percentage complete to 5.3%

Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler is out next.

7/17/25

 Last night, I finished page 25 of Warrior Alice.  I could have stopped before the page finish, but you know, the page finish seemed important.

I met my July goal for Alice with 2648 tent/1324 full x stitches and 61.84% complete.

Her Private Garden is out now for 1000 tent stitches.

7/14/25

 If I'd only realized I met my goal with page 22, I would have rotated then.  Instead, I added another length of 939 and got started on page 23/24.

My June goal for Loneliness of Autumn was met with 5840 tent/2920 full x stitches and 77.91% complete.

Warrior Alice is out next for her June stitches

7/12/25

 Page 22 of Loneliness of Autumn and 77.8% complete

7/7/25

 I've met my June goal for Sea Witch with 1136 tent/568 full x stitches.  It is now 38.31% complete.

After Sea Witch, Loneliness of Autumn came out.  Saturday, I finished page 21 which saw 74.04% complete.

And last night saw me make it to 75.54% complete.

I'm almost hoping to finish page 22 with June stitches.

7/2/25

Ive met my goal on Ann Bowers from The Examplarery.  

I'm glad I decided to keep Ann last year.  Ive really started to enjoy working on her.

Sea Witch is out next.

 

7/1/25

 Growth Rings from Ink Circles has met its 2025 goal with 586 stitches.

Ann Bowers from The Examplarery is out next.

6/29/25

 Jane Fiddes' goal is met with 615 stitches.

I made it though all the colors in the top two rows of alphabets.  The next time this one comes out there's a border and the other I stills to go along with the big "F"

Growth Rings from Ink Circles is out next.

6/28/25

June goal met for Her Private Garden  with 1282 tent/641 full cross stitches and 5.02% complete.

And goal met for Sarah Braizear with 568 stitches.

Jane Fiddes is up next.

6/25/25

 Last night I completed February's goal for SS Daybreak with 1026 tent/513 full x stitches and reached 2.17% complete.

Her Private Garden is out next.

6/23/25

 Last night, I finally met my June goal for Loneliness of Autumn with 5932 tent/2966 full cross stitches and 73% complete

 I thought about just finishing the page but I couldn't bring myself to do it.  It was time to move on.  

SS Daybreak came out next.  I would love to be able to get more than my 1000 tent stitch goal since there were several months I didn't pick it up, but I would be happy with just the 1000 tent stitches since the trees are high confetti.

6/16/25

 Yesterday, I finished page 20 of Loneliness of Autumn and it is now 70.03% complete.

6/13/25

 I hoped to finish the middle of Heritage Sampler, without the personalization, in a couple of days.  Little did I know it would take 6 days and 2921 stitches.  I guess I did start working in the next section down too which is a few of those stitches.  I thought about taking the border all the way around but wanted to make sure I was going to be able to check it is in the right place before I got too far ahead of myself.

Loneliness of Autumn came out next for it's June stitches.

6/7/25

 Yesterday, I met my June goal for Warrior Alice with 2050 tent/1025 full x stitches and 60.06% complete

Sea Witch came out next and I've met my June goal with 1042 tent/521 full x stitches for 37.91% complete.

Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler is out next.